Using biometric data to identify people may still seem like the stuff of science fiction, but it’s here today, and it’s become widespread. Companies use biometric data because it’s hard to fake, which makes it useful for preventing fraud. However, its permanence also...
According to the 2019 Mid-Year QuickView Data Breach Report, the first half of 2019 saw 3,813 data breaches involving 4.1 billion records. The majority of those records — 3.2 billion, or nearly 75% — were exposed in just eight mega-breaches. Email data was exposed in...
Yale University has been in the news this month due to a data breach that started in 2008. That’s not a typo; it took Yale 10 years to realize that its security had been compromised. This situation brings into sharp focus the importance of not just avoiding security...
Chris Wolski is the Head of Information Security for Perdue Farms Inc., where he is responsible for the information security, industrial cybersecurity, and data privacy programs.This September he’ll be at PREX to talk about developing and implementing a response plan...